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A 6 page paper. The three issues are: Women as Roman Catholic Priests; Judaism and Same-Sex Marriage, Judaism and Reincarnation. For each issue, three articles from the Web are reviewed and discussed. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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evidence for their position. For example, Miller, writing in the Seattle Catholic Journal, cites Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, written by Pope John Paul in 1994 that states the "Church has no authority
whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women" (Miller, 2001). A document from the Vatican in 1998 stated that Catholics who continued to discuss this issue "were excommunicating themselves" (Miller, 2001).
Miller reminds the reader that Christ chose all men as His twelve apostles and also that natural law supports the ban on ordaining women as priests (Miller, 2001). Miller
ends his argument by stating that allowing continued discussion of the issue, even as a mental theological exercise, "is only going to continue the Church down its current course of
self-destruction" (Miller, 2001). Two other very large organizations argue even more strongly for the ordination of women, the Campaign for the Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church
and the Womens Ordination Conference. Both of these Web sites take the argument against women priests point by point and demonstrate the arguments as being invalid. They both note that
the Church denies any past history of women being given Holy Orders, yet historical documents dating back to St. Pauls letters mention women being "accepted in the diaconate which is
a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign for the Ordination of Women, n.d.). In Romans 16:1-6, Paul wrote: "Greet Prisca and Aquila my fellow
workers in Christ Jesus" . . . "Greet Mary who has worked so much among you." In the same way "Tryphaena, Tryphosa and Persis labor in the Lord" (Womens Ordination
Conference, n.d.). The Campaign for the Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church carries this one step further when the site reports that the ordination of women as deacons
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